US House of Reps approves Harvey emergency relief

07/09/2017

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) expressed outrage Wednesday at the notion that Democrats would attempt to protect hundreds of thousands of DACA beneficiaries in an upcoming vote on the debt ceiling, warning that they should not "play politics" as the nation deals with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and prepares for Hurricane Irma.

As of last week, the House was set to actually consider a $876 million cut from FEMA's disaster relief accounts to help fund Trump's promised U.S. -Mexico border wall.

The House will vote Wednesday on a Hurricane Harvey relief bill that won't contain language aimed at preventing a U.S default on its debt.

The rest would be put into a loan program for small businesses hit hard by the storm. But many conservative Republicans oppose tying Harvey aid to a debt ceiling measure without related reforms.

But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could complicate the issue with his proposal to couple a hike in the government's borrowing limit to the Harvey bill. It will then head to the Senate, where GOP leaders are planning to tie the funding to a controversial must-pass measure to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a USA government default. Mnuchin has said the debt limit must be raised by September 29 to avoid a default.

Congress is also expected to authorize another $6.7 billion in expedited aid relief that will be part of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open until the end of the year.

House Republican leaders recognize that a majority of their own members don't want to vote for a measure to raise the debt ceiling.

When the upper chamber receives the bill, lawmakers are expected to attach a measure to lift the debt ceiling, vote on the package and send it back to the House for a final vote by the end of the week.

"We speak in one voice", said Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat. "I continue to be anxious about the debt, but I don't think this is the time to have that debate".

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"Our leadership is looking at different options and discussing them with the Senate so we just had a discussion about what some of those options are", Brady added.

"To his credit, he went with the better arguments", he said.

"Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA!"

"It's the party. It's the Republican brand", Representative Dave Brat of Virginia. That will strand the aid that we need to bring to the victims of these storms that have occurred or are about to occur and then also want to threaten default on our debt.

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Pyongyang's test Sunday of what is thought to be its most powerful nuclear weapon doesn't change that fact, experts say. He later added his administration is considering halting all trade with countries doing business with North Korea.

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Harvey's devastating strike on the Gulf Coast has prompted one of the summer's largest one-week price surges, AAA reported . On average, gas prices in the entire state of North Carolina have spiked by about 20 cents since last week.

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